Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-09
CALIFORNIA CRAZE.
1t is All Very Nice on Paper, but 1t Is
No Place for Those Who Rave
Home and Money to Get
Something More substaDtial than Climate
and Air r. quired to Keep this Wolf
From the Door.


From the Door
WACO, Ten, Dec. 8. 1857.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
In Texas we seldom, If ever, do any
thing until necessity compels US. How
ever, when we do wake up and become
interested in any enterprise we never do
anything by halves. and we always sue
coed in anything we undertake. We have
just at this time decided that we need
more people and capital in our state, and
when we 'get move on" excuse the
slsng) we will surprise those people in
some OF the adjoining and distant states,
| and those of our people who are now pre-
| pairing to pack up and leave Texas for
! California would do we'll to stop a little
and look little out, as the good natured
and jolly German would say. The would
| be California boom hunter will enjoy
8 sure enough boom, ard one that has
solid foundation to it if he will just wait
| few days. The prospects for pros
! porous season in Texas were never better
| than they are now. With what rain has
| already fallen there is fine season in the
ground, and with the same amount of
rainfall that we had last season which we
are sure to have, if not more, good crop
| is certainty. This with the rush Of
new people and capital that our railroads.
are going TO bring US in the near future
will place Texas in the front rank and
no mistake, and those that
leave the state now am
afraid will sincerely regret it. This thing
of hunting booms is not what it is
always represented to be. The best
country is always "a few miles further
on" and il you will be patient and wait
little while the boom will find you, and
especially will this be the case If you re-
main in Texas" Why, my dear sir,
would you believe it, "there is many
poor man and his family that is now in
California that would only be too glad TO
get back to good old Texas, but you see
be spent most of his little CAPT.
tai in going there, and living there is
high" yes, very high, and now that he
wants TO return he finds that il takes
nearly, If not quite double, the money to
get back that it did to go, and then ne is
a sad but wiser man. He naturally finds
that he and his family can't live on air
and pleasant climate; it requires some
thing more substantial to keep the 'Wolf
his reach. He might get little land if
he had the money TO buy, but then he
would have to buy the water to irrigste
and he knows nothing Of farming in that
way, so you see he is completely at sea
without rudder, so to speak. Oh,
yes, my dear fellow, Cslifornis
is all very nice to read about, and may do
pretty well for gentlemen of leisure and
those who have plenty of cash, but for the
man who has @ home and money to get,
it is the last place on earth to go to
Texas is without doubt the best state in
our blessed Union for the man with linn
tied or moderate N ans. If 8 man don't
secure for himself and family a comfort
able home in Texas he is no "rustler,"
and could not get home in any state or
country. 1t certainly is mans own
fault If he is not land owner, or have a
place that he can call home ia Texas
l have Just come from California
and think l know what l am talking
about, and as you we'll know have been
in Texas some years and know some little
of il, and while we have had our ups and
downs and all that, we must bear in mind
tdat the state and country is yet 20 be
found with good crops every year, and
Texas will average with most states row
in the way of crops, and when rye farm as
we should, and as one would be compelled
to IN most states, we will surprise the
world with our products and variety G
crops. You can go to California If you
waot to cold ptrd," but
as for me, Texas is good enough and |
will stick TO the old ship yer while
When l came here had no home, and
know Of sny number of our old friends
who were in the same fix, but now, and
We have not been here but few years,
the most of US, those who have made anv
effort, have q good home, and if we stay
with it we are ell right. "You bet, old
boys" 1t would be a C, Id day in Jul when
we would be able to get home in old
Kentucky, our old home. Where land is
so high it is clear out Of the reach of the
poor man, to say nothing Of Cali
fornis, where they sell it by
the inch and water the same way.
Well, Jun, $50 long," if you go,
wish you success, but take myI advice and
consider well before you jump so far.
Thanks, Tom, old friend; I'll go home
snd talk the matter over with the old
lady and the children, and we may recon-
slider and try Texas for another year. II
the railroads would bring US in some
ACiShOOAo 81 We SouIo SSt o cCuOOI III VIC
settlement, snd Sallie could send the
little ones-God bless them-to school,
she would feel more content and
satisfied. We naturally thought when
we moved out there that others
would soon follow and we have been ps-
tiently waiting, but no neighbors have
come and we had about made up our
minds to either so back to old Kentucky
or go to California. Glad l CHANGED to |
meet you here, Tom. Same to you, Jim;
good day and good luck be with you, and
we may yet often meet in Fort Worth;
hope so, at least.
The shove conversation was overheard
by GAZETTE rustler at the corner Of
Fourth and Main streets yesterday, ana
as the California craze seems to have
caught some of our people, we give our
readers the benefit Of the observation and
experience Of one who has been there.
J. n.
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